O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the… — Sir Walter Scott
O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering upon aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Redgauntlet · 1808
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Citation
Scott, Walter, Sir. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: William Miller and John Murray, 1808, canto 6, st. 30.
